I thought they filmed scenes in the east bay? Oakland maybe? I swear I met (biblically) girls back then in s.f. that had been in some rave scene.
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
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#12My favorite of these shot-for-shot style videos is how well Last of Us 2 recreated Seattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukShs2qgCI
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#13I thought they filmed scenes in the east bay? Oakland maybe? I swear I met (biblically) girls back then in s.f. that had been in some rave scene.
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
Eh... I feel like they have aged better over time than a lot of 'trilogies'. They do not measure up to the original but they aren't truly terrible, at least if you're looking at them from a more philosophical standpoint.
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#15I thought they filmed scenes in the east bay? Oakland maybe? I swear I met (biblically) girls back then in s.f. that had been in some rave scene.
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
I remember being at the alameda skatepark and hearing them shoot the freeway scene where the twins are driving a mac truck and trinity comes to help.
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#16Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
Heh :) Sydney downtown is very beautiful and very city vibe.
Especially the sound of the crosswalk signals. Orbital introduced me to them in the 90s, so when I heard in person the first time I had a knowing smile and started to groove to the rest of the track that my brain filled in for me
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
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#18Very cool! I knew all of them, except for the two hotel locations! Sydney's inner city has changed a lot in the intervening years. It's surreal revisiting that Castlereigh St shot in the film, and seeing how undeveloped it looks in comparison to today.
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Heh :) Sydney downtown is very beautiful and very city vibe.
Especially the sound of the crosswalk signals. Orbital introduced me to them in the 90s, so when I heard in person the first time I had a knowing smile and started to groove to the rest of the track that my brain filled in for me
We call them 'pedestrian crossings' down under! It's been sampled in a few songs actually. The sound is so ingrained in our psyche that you recognise it instantly.
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Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
The first film was groundbreaking. It matched "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" in terms of its cultural penetration. Unfortunately the series failed to live past that strong debut. The second and third films were a total letdown, and The Animatrix only appealed to a niche audience and was itself a mixed bag.
The surprising and unsolicited fourth film had some promise in the first third of the film - I loved how it subverted expectations and was a meta deconstruction of the series itself. After the provocative and almost blasphemous setup, the film quickly devolved into poor action, weird pacing, and overall bad plot and character arcs. In a word, it felt senile. (The action shouldn't have been that bad with Keanu helming John Wick. It was just laziness.) The denouement was just same-y slop we see in every other dialed in action movie. Such a letdown for such a shocking cold open.
If you haven't seen the fourth film, it's a bit of a mind fuck. But turn it off the minute the reveal is over. That part is a treat, but it isn't worth your time otherwise.